

Henri Storck’s militant short on Depression-era Belgium, set in Walloon slums on the outskirts of a prosperous city. Staged vignettes expose substandard housing, overcrowding, and numbed survival through claustrophobic, frame-filling images; a coda on slum clearance and “garden city” rehousing offers guarded hope.
Director
Henri Storck
Release Date
May 7, 1936
Runtime
0h 29m
Status
Released
Original Language
fr
Vote Count
3
Films Henri Storck